Bataille de dames
Page 13.
[Footnote 44: #crieurs des rues#, newsmongers, men corresponding
somewhat to our newsboys.]
[Footnote 45: #soeur#. Cp. p.11, line 21.]
Page 14.
[Footnote 46: #A la bonne heure!# Well done, here, but with very
varied shades of meaning, that must be caught always from the context.]
[Footnote 47: The campaign of 1812-1813 is meant. Its chief events were
the burning of Moscow (October, 1812), Napoleon's very disastrous
retreat thence, and the defeat of the French at Leipzig in October,
1813.]
[Footnote 48: See p. 2, note 1.]
[Footnote 49: #voiture de place#, public cab.]
[Footnote 50: #Lambert#. Curiously enough, the three Lamberts known
to the history of this time were all émigrés, and one of them a
Russian general during the invasion of France. The name is therefore
somewhat unfortunately chosen.]